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Real World

Real World
Natsuo Kirino

Real World is a 2003 novel written by Natsuo Kirino. It was published in English by Vintage Books on July 15, 2008. The story describes the lives of four teenage girls: Toshi, Terauchi, Yuzan and Kirarin, and how they deal with Toshi's neighbor Worm, a teenage boy who goes on the run after being accused of murdering his mother. The action takes place in a suburb of Tokyo.

“Bye-bye. I'm off on a journey to the real world. 'Cause within this meta-reality what'sis this - my death.”

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“I’m still afraid of being totally honest. I’m more afraid of this than dying.”

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“Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don’t understand you at all.”

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“It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people.”

Natsuo Kirino book Real World

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“I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really hard to survive.”

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